Olivia Howard Dunbar

Olivia Howard Dunbar was an American short story writer, journalist and biographer. She is best known today for her ghost fiction, including The Shell of Sense. Her work appeared in magazines in the early twentieth century. She was born in 1873 and died in 1953. Her ghost stories, among them The Shell of Sense, are often chosen for modern anthologies of the genre. She also wrote a biography and worked as a journalist, and editors respected the care she gave to each sentence.